Device for securing cut tobacco



(No Model.)

F. GRILL. DEVICE FOR SECURING GUT-TOBACCO;

gatentedMar. 27, 1888 AT'r'oRNEY WITNESSES: X W m vvfir),

UNITED STATES P TENT- OFFICE.

FREDERICK GRILL, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR SECUR ING CUT TOBACCO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,256, dated March 27, 1888.

Application filed October 10, 1887. Serial No. 251,898. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK GRILL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Securing Out Tobacco,which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of means for packing cut tobacco, wherebythe tobacco may be examined and the quality of the same readily determined, while avoiding foil, paper, and other wrappings and preserving the flavor and moisture of the tobacco, other advantages being possessed, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a packageof fine-cut tobacco embodying my invention. The remaining figures (seventeen) represent modifications of tags that may be employed.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

In the drawings, A represents a package of fine-cut tobacco, which may be of any shape, and B represents a fastener therefor, the same being formed of a piece of wire,or cord, if preferred, having its ends connected, forming a loop which is twisted or bent at the center, producing'a neck or link, 0, thereat, and a double loop or two loops, D D. When the wire is bent to form the neck or link, the lat-,

ter may be preserved by a piece of wire, soldering, 8m. i

In Fig. 18 I show two loops which are connected as links and have their places of contact constitute a neck, 0, said figure being on a reduced scale.

The package A is placed within the loops D D, the neck being below,.and the upper ends of the loops are brought together and secured bya tag, E, whereby the loops are prevented from separation, and the tobacco is nicely retained within the loops, owing to p the spreading nature of the loops from the neck to the place of fastening, it being seen that the surface of the package is almost en-v tirely exposed, as the loops are of skeleton form and sink somewhat into the tobacco and are concealed therein, by which provision the tobacco may be examined by the purchaser and its quality and condition determined, rapid drying and deterioration being avoided, unlike tobacco which is packed in closed wrappings of foil, paper, due.

The packages may be readily placed in boxes, and the tobacco while therein may also be examined or inspected and itscharacter and condition determined.

The face-plate E of the tag E admits of placing the brand, manufacturers name, and other information thereon, and the tag may be variously constructed.

In Fig. 1 the tag has a single pin, F, which passes through the overlapped ends of the tops of the two loops. pins, which may enter the ends of the two loops, the pins in either case piercing the tobacco. In Figs. 3 and 4 eyes F are employed for connecting the tops of the loops. In Fig. 5 two pins, F, are connected with the tag and adapted for engagement with the loops. In Fig. 6 there are two elastic fingers, F, which enter the tops of the loops. Fig. 7 shows a spring-pin, F, attached to the plate E. Fig. 8 has upturned eyes attached to the plate. Fig. 9 represents a plate with eye portions E integral therewith. Fig-12 represents a'section on line 2 a, Fig. 9, the eye portions E being bent down, forming eyes or loops F. In Fig. two plates are shown, one having pins which tightly enter sockets on the other plate, the loops being placed between the plates. Figs. 13, 14, 15, and 17 illustrate two plates pivoted together and adaptedto receive the tops of the loops between them, Fig. 15 being a section on line y y, Fig. 13, and Fig. 17 a section on line 2 z, Fig. 14. Fig. 11 represents the top of one loop passed through eyes in the face-plate of the tag, the top of the other loop being caught beneath said plate,

In Fig. 2 the tag has two Fig. 16 being a section on line a a in said claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

' 1. A fastener for tobacco, consisting of a two-part loop with a neck joining the parts consisting of a loop with a link or neck inthereof, and a device for securing the opposing tegral therewith, and a device for locking the ends of said parts, substantially as described. ends of said loop, substantially as described. 10

2. A fastener for tobacco consisting of a FREDERICK GRILL. 5 double loop with a connecting link or neck Witnesses:

and a locking-tag, substantially as described. JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM,

3. A fastener for tobacco of skeleton form, JAMES F. KELLY. 

